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Manhunt after two police officers shot dead and third seriously injured in Australia
A manhunt is under way for a gunman who shot and killed two officers and seriously injured another at a rural property in a remote part of Australia, police have said.
The wounded officer was "shot in the lower body" in the incident near Porepunkah, a town of around 1,000 people roughly 300km (190 miles) northeast of Melbourne, shortly after 10.30am, Victoria Police said in a statement. No other officers were wounded in the incident on Tuesday morning, local time, but they remain at the property.
The statement said "it's believed ten police attended the property on Rayner Track" while the offender "has since left the property and at this time his whereabouts are unknown. A significant search is actively underway to locate the man." While police have not named the suspect, media have identified the man as Dezi Freeman, also known as Dezi Bird Freeman.
Speaking to reporters at around 6am, local time, (9am, GMT), Victoria Police Commissioner Mike Bush paid tribute to the "brave" officers who died, confirming one was a 59-year-old detective and the other a senior constable aged 35. A second detective who was shot was in surgery after being airifted to hospital, but was not in a life-threatening state, he said.
The suspect, who was known to police, was "heavily armed and dangerous.
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